The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04

companionship your loneliness to soothe your
sorrows, sit with you by the newmade grave,
to bind up your wounds in the ugly
battle with the world and bring you home az
last, klndling up the mists that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight of glorious
morn For your sakes? No; 1 will change
that. Paul will not care, and Christ will not
care II L change it, for l must get into the
Diessedness OF the text myself, and so 1 say:
4 or our sakes! For we all have our tempta-
lions, and bereavements, and conflicts For
our sakes! We who deserve for our sins TO be
expatriated into world as much poorer than
tIlls imam TINS earth was poorer than heaven
For our SakeSi
But what fruitful coming down to take us
giorlously up. When Artaxerxes was hunting
iirebazus who was attending him showed the
KING rent in his garment. The king said:
How shall l mend it?" ''By giving it to
me-, said Tirebazus. Then the king gave
MN the robe, but commanded. him never to
wear 1T as it would be inappropriate. See the
startling and comforting fact, while our prince
throws Off the habit he not only allows us 10
wear 1t but commands us to wear it, and it
Will become us well, and for the poverties of
our spiritual state we may puton the splendors
~ 81 heavenly regalement For our sakes! o,
the personality of this religion! Not
an abstraction, not an arch under which we
walk to behold elaborateS masonry, not an ice
G p Ike that which Empress Elizabeth, of
aso ordered over constructed hundred Taer years
its trowel of crystal cementing the
huge blocks that had been quar1ied from the
frozen rivers OF the north, but fathers house
with wide hearth cracking hearty well
come: A religion of warmth and inspiration,
and light, and cheer, something we can take
INTO our hearts, and homes, and business
recreationS, and joys and sorrows. Not an un-
manageable gift like the galley presented to
Ptolemy, which required four thousand men
to row, and its draught of water was so great
that it could not come near the Shore but
something you can run up any stream of an
noyance, however shallow. Enrichment now,
enrichment forever.
Right about face! for you are going in the
wrong direction. While you are in a favora-
bic mood for it, enter into life. Here and Just
now decide everything that makes for peace
and heaven. Agassiz says that he has stood at
one place in the Alps where he could throw a
chip into the water in one direction, and it
would roll on into the German ocean, or he
could throw a chip into the water in
another direction, and it would reach the
Black Sea by the Danube, or he could throw a
chip in another direction and it would enter
the Mediterranean by the Rhine. How far
apart the Mediterranean and the Black Sea,
and the German oceani Standing today on
this Alps of Gospel privilege, you can project
your soul into right currents, and it will roll
on into the ocean of life; or project it in the
wrong direction and it will roll into the sea of
death. But how far apart the two distancesi
May God help us to appreciate more and
more the momentouS meaning of our textl
The seven wise men of Greece were chiefly
known each for one apophegm; Scion for the
saying: Nothing is impossible to Industry"
Chilo for the saying: Consider the end !"
ThaleS for the saving: "Suretyship is the pre-
cursor of ruin" And Paul, distinguished for
thousand utterances might well afford to be
memorable for the saying: ''You know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
he was rich, yet for your sakes became poor,
that We through his poverty might be rich